Newberry Library - Furber Family: Furber, Joseph M. (Samuel's brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851

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Title Furber Family: Furber, Joseph M. (Samuel's brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1851

Place United States

Subjects Bowdoin College, Brothers and sisters, DuQuoin Coal Company, Illinois Central Railroad Company

Format Business records, Correspondence, Diaries, Genealogies, Invoices, Manuscripts, Personal narratives, Records

User-Contributed Transcription J.W. Furber OctWe had a call yesterday from the Rev McHall the Presbyterian minister has just arived had a family of a wife only, a young man of very good address, and appearance he supplied this place and Pt Douglass only, proposed to hold forth in each place, each Sabbath, or politically speaking Sunday I believe Theo has engaged to board him and his lady @$4. pr week, Will he not have quite a house full of women and not any children to comfort them, Well as troublesom as my children are I think I would as soon have my house filled with them as with any othersOur folks here are all well as usual Estella is almost always well so long as she can romp and run, Aurilla's health had been better for the last three weekes than it has been scince spring, I think as cold weather comes on she will improve, the little boy has not yet got a name, but had had the offer of many, is yet very troublesom, is not well but gromed quite well, think if he had a healthy mother, that he would be a good boyJoseph W Furber

Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 3 Folder 62

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3118px × 4883px 87.16 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_03_fl_62_004_005.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FEYX

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